Executrix

Quick meaning: Executrix is a noun meaning (specifically, law) A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor.

Meaning

(specifically, law) A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, rare) A female person who executes or carries out something.

Example Sentences

[S]he is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing.

A female […] at ſeventeen may be executrix; and at tvventy one may diſpoſe of herſelf and her lands.

And fewe [wives] there be that be not made at the death of their huſbandes either ſole or chiefe executrixes of his laſt wil and teſtament, and haue for the moſt part the gouernement of the children and their portions: […]

His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing [Alfred] Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: […]

Word Forms

• executrices
• executrixes
• executrice

Synonyms for executrix

Depending on context, synonyms include executress, execx, exrx, exx.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include executress, executour, executioneress, executer, exor, exactress.

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